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Richard II brought London's Old Vic to Broadway after a ten-year absence. In 1946, with Laurence Olivier's Oedipus and to some degree Ralph Richardson's Falstaff, it provided some of the supreme theater memories of its time. During its present stay, the Old Vic must attempt new victories; for Broadway, it is a cast of unknown names, except for cinema's Claire Bloom...
Richard II made a less reverberant opening flourish than did Henry IV in 1946. A step backward from Henry in English history, it is also a step or two downward in Shakespearean art. Yet since the Old Vic's current bill, unlike its earlier one, is all-Shakespearean,* this brilliant bit of early characterization, a sort of watercolorist's Hamlet, was not necessarily ill-chosen. It was a good taking-off point to soar from. And as proof of the Old Vic's feeling for tradition, its reaching for distinction, its high competence in production, Richard...
Married. Ken Rosewall, 21, freckled Australian tennis prodigy who startled tennis handicappers in 1952 by upsetting U.S. Davis Cup Captain Vic Seixas in the U.S. Nationals, last month won the U.S. championship; and Wilma Mclver, 22, movie theater receptionist; in Brisbane...
...major cities last week-Brooklyn and Milwaukee-the season reached a roaring climax as the Dodgers and Braves fought it out for the National League pennant (see SPORT). Such was the objection of Ebbets Field to Umpire Vic Delmore when he made a bad call on Catcher Campanella at second base that there came a revelation, to hear the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Red Smith tell it, "that at least 34,022 people in Brooklyn have white handkerchiefs, a fact previously unsuspected." Such was the absorption of Milwaukee in the Braves that the arrival there of Campaigner...
...wisely abstained from voting. India's Binay R. Sen, 58, present Ambassador to Japan, was elected with 42 votes. After his election, FAO Chief Sen spoke the kindest words about the U.S. that have fallen from Indian lips in a long time. Said he: "The U.S. withdrawal when vic tory was in sight took great courage and self-denial . . We believe the U.S. has taken note of the growing desire on the part of less developed areas to take over the direction of the FAO for a while. Only a great nation with a great heart can have that...